Great Moments in Obama Administration Military History

Ponder the glories of the smartness and resolve of the Obama administration in foreign policy if they were quoted throughout history.

Julius Caesar: "I came, I saw, I dithered."

John Paul Jones: "I have not yet begun to decide!"

Napoleon: "If you start to take Vienna--take 2 or 3 days and then wrap it up."

Oliver Hazard Perry: "We have met the enemy, and they are people we can do business with."

Napoleon's standing order: "March to the sound of the applause."

Von Clausewitz: "Proportionate, limited strikes, without boots on the ground, are a continuation of politics by other means."

Ulysses S. Grant: "I propose to fight it out on this line, if it takes all weekend."

Nathan Bedford Forrest: "Get there whenever--it doesn't really matter--with the minimum of cruise missiles plausible."

William Tecumseh Sherman: "An unbelievably small strike is Hell."

Ralph Waldo Emerson: "When you strike a king, you must degrade his capabilities."

Unnamed chaplain at Pearl Harbor: "Praise the Lord and pass the resolution." (At some level I prefer "Praise The One and parse the dissimulation.")

Stalin: "Quandary has a quality all its own."

George C. Scott as Patton: "I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by sending a message to the other poor, dumb bastard."

Five years into the presidency, and here we are on foreign policy and matters of war.

UPDATE: Dang. Meant to post this tomorrow but posted it to this morning, and it got some hits before I could revert to draft. So here you go. Enjoy. If that's the word.

UPDATE: Thanks to Mad Minerva for the link. If you can't LOL you'll cry, at this point.

UPDATE: And thanks to Stones Cry Out for the link.

UPDATE: Via Mad Minerva, P. J. O'Rourke has fun with quotes, too.